a specialist recently gave her
complete assurance
future health.
The wedding will be the "happy ending" to a romance which began before the shooting affray.
CELLAR
WAS 'BABY WARD'
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened ta
and FIXED DEPO Local Currency SITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local and Other Currencies will bo quoted on
on terms which application.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various
sizes To Let.
TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business undertaken.
Hong Kong. 20th February, 1941. HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Business of the above Bank 18 conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Rules may be obtained on application. KONG AND FOR THE HONG
A coal cellar was trans-SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
formed into a “maternity ward" by an East End of London father for his wife and newly-born baby.
dank Over the
walls of the underground chamber the father A clean bed and hung quilts. equipment awaited mother child after the woman was carried the con- downstairs following
finement.
"Our nurse had
saw
how
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937. THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.
and
Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund
£3.000.000 £3,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
£3,000,000
a shock when beautifully the
she father had planned everything." matron of the Plaistow Maternity Hospital said: "She called it thei tapestry walled' cellar."
Sir Percy
Everett. chairman
of the hospital, speaking in London recently, emphasised the
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Enakow Hong Kong
Penang
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refusal
of East End mothers to leave their homes, even for their children.
Amelinar Alor Star
the
birth
of
Bangkok
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Balavim
Ipok
Bombay
Karachi
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ASIA, LTD.
Calcutta
Klang
Agencies 1 Kobe
Beremben
Konagha
Singapore Sitiawan
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Fairlts Place Kuching
Talping
Canton
Madras
Tientsio
Authorised Capital
Paid-up Capital Reserve and Undivided
Proits
.$10,000.000.00 Cawupore
3,598,600.00 Cebu
Colombo Dubl 2.983.201.50 Baiphong
Manila
Tongkah
Medau
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New York
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Yokounma
(Poking)
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"GERMAN
RECORDS
LOCAL SHARES
BANKS
Hong Kong Bank $1360 b., $1370
52.
Bank of East Asia $72 b.
SHIPPING
Indo-Chinas (Pref.) $80 b. Indo-Chinas (Def.) $65 b.
DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, ETC.
H.K. Docks $15.80 s. Providents $5.85 b., $6 s., $5.80/-
85 sa.
LAND8, HOTEL & BLDG8. H.K. and S. Hotels $3.35 b.. ....$3.35/40 sü.
H.K. Lands $361⁄4 b.. $35 sa. H.K, Realtles $3.20 6. Chinese Estates $100 b.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
H.K. Tramways $17.10 b., $17.-
15 sa
China Lights (Old) $6/6.05 sa, China Lights (New) S1.35 b..
HERE"
SEA
Gramophone re-
cords, including
at
Uber
"Deutschland Alles" and German soldier songs in Ger- man, are being made a factory in this country, says Mr. Geoffrey Mander (Lib., Wolverhamp- ton), who is to ask in the House of Com- mons who gave the order.
H.K. Electrics Ex. Rts. $221⁄2 19667000000000000
HK, Electrics (New) $21 b. Macao Electrics $184-BEN Telephones (Old) XD $221⁄2 6 Telophones (New) X.D. $8.90 b
$9.10 s., $0 sa
REA INDUSTRIALS Coments $14.60 b
H.K. Ropes $8.60 b.. $8.40/81⁄2
1STORES, &ci
Daire Forms $10 b. Watsons $10.80 b., $11.10
$104/85 sa (Continued at Foot of Next
LAST DAY'S SALES 16 HK Banks @ $1870% 5400 Providents. @ $5.80 500 Hotels @ $3,35 500 Hotels @ $3.40 500 Lands $39
700 Trams @ $17:15 500 Lights (Old) @se 200 Lights (New) @ $6.05.
300 Eectrics (Old) X.
@ $22/
100 Telephones (New) @ $9
1,500 Ropes $8,40
500 Ropes @ $84
2,600 Watsons @ $103,
-1000 Watsons @ $10,85
TITLED AIRMAN IN RIDDLE
Han
HEAD OFFICE:-HONG KONG 10, Des Voeux Road, Central,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:-
Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman Li Koon Chun, Esq.. P. K Kwok, Esq.,
Li Lan Sang.] Wong Yun Tong, Esq.. Esq. Wong Chu Son, Esq. and Fung Ping Wah, Esq.
Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager. Hon. Mr. Li Tse Fong. Manager,
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-
Foul play is suspected in the
of Leading case Aircraftsman Sir Keith Batoria
Amoy
Hombos
Hankow
Eobe
LoudoD
Manila Melbourne Nagki New York Paris Peiping Pensar
•
Rangoor Balkon
Seattle
Samarang Senghal Singapore Sourabaya
A ptow
Sydney Tientsia
Vancouver
Fraser, of the Royal Can-Calcutta
Watt hong adian Air Force, who fell Honolulu from a fourth-floor win-Kowloon dow of a Montreal hotel and was seriously injur. Exchange business transacted. Loans ed.
San Francisco
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted,
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other Currencies at rates which wil be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with in- terest allowed at rates obtainable on application.
The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Trustee busie ness, and claims recovery of Britain Income Tax overpakt, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the. Agencies and Branches.
WHL EVANS THOMAS.
Manager
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.
HEAD OFFICE:
£3,000,000
1,800,000
1,050.000
1,234,639
Every description of Banking and
10, Gracechurch Street, London, E.C.8. granted on approved securities. '-
Current Accounts opened in Local Authorised Capital Currency and Fixed Deposits-received Subscribed Capital He keeps on muttering: "Get for one year or shorter periods in Local Paid-up Capital Von Izenhart,"
but the airman's and Foreign Currencies on terms Reserve Fund & Rest
which will be quoted an application,"
Safe Deposit Boxes To Let, friends know no one of that name.
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager.
THE WING ON BANK, LIMITED.
Sir Keith, who is a nephew of the Earl of Coventry, registered at the hotel after returning from New York, where he had visited his wife, says Exchange.
is well known Sir Kelth, 29. in the Carlton Curleu district of Leicestershire, where the family lived for many years.
His mother, Lady Dorothy Fraser, moved to Church Lang ton after her husband's death a Rts. few years ago.
:
Head Office: Hong Kong. 20, Des Voeux Road, Central. Authorland Capital : $10,000,000-|
LONDON BANKERS Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every description of banking business transacted.
Current Accounts and Savings path Accounts opened. Fixed Deposile She told a reporter that the received at rates which will be only explanation she could offer quoted on application.
of the phrase "Get Von Izenhart" Safe Deposit Boxes for hire. was that this aan must be German spy
PHILIP GOCKCHIN,
Chief: Manager.
BANKERS: The Bank of England and Midjand Bank, Ltd.
Jaffn Bangkok Bombay Caloutta
Kuantan Kaudz Karachi
BRANCHES:;
Madras New York
Penang
Rangan
Kota Ularu
Shanghai
Gallo
Kuala Lumpur Simia
Hong Kong
Kuala Lipis
Singapore
Howrah
Iyon
Colembo Deihl
Kualai. Tre
Trougganu
HONG KONG BRANCH M Every description of Banking' qnʊ
TRUSTEE AND EXECUTORSHIP Exchange business transacted, nokk
* UNDERTAKEN, CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened I? received in Local Currency & STER Local Currency and FIXED DEPOSITS LING on terms that may be ascertained- on application.
D. BENSON.
Manager.